Gun Control

Handguns aren't going away in America. Not tomorrow, not in 10 years, not in 50 years.

Even if a majority of Americans one day supported a federal ban on handguns, it's not realistic. There are too many guns on the street and too much special interest at play.

There's an obvious remedy that will preserve the Second Amendment and reduce the mind-boggling number of gun-related deaths in the United States — 301,797 between 2005 and 2015, according to PolitiFact.

Smart guns — which use various methods of technology such as radio frequencies and fingerprint identification to ensure that only a weapon's owner or approved users can fire it — won't end gun violence. But they...

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NO, ADDRESS THE REAL PROBLEM
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